The Indian Express understands that the franchise is keen on bringing Rishabh Pant to the MA Chidambaram Stadium — and are working on their retention strategy accordingly.
CSK is aware that if Pant comes into the auction pool, they have to set aside a huge chunk of their purse for him, maybe in excess of Rs 20 crore. Hence, they are pondering ways to go with a significant auction purse. Towards that endeavour, they might release Jadeja into the auction pool and buy him back using the RTM option.
Retention strategy being tweaked keeping all scenarios in mind as MS Dhoni set to be held onto while decision on Ravindra Jadeja yet to be taken.
indianexpress.com